Combing machine for wool, cotton, and the like



2, 1938.. I K. J. SCHMITT 2,125,360

'COMBING MACHINE FOR WOOL, COTTON, AND THE' LIKE Filed March 19, 1937-Patented Aug. 2, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE COMBING MACHINE FORWOOL, COTTON, AND THE LIKE Karl Josef Schmitt, Chemnitz, GermanyApplication March 19, 1937, Serial No. 131,818 In Germany February 13,1936 2 Claims. (01. 19-121) This invention relates to a combing machineFor the purpose of adjusting the amplitude of the for W001, cotton and.the like, in which the fibrous stroke, the pivot pins m about which thelinks 9' material to be combed is held in nippers. oscillate, arearranged adjustable and fixable in It is known to equip, in combingmachines with slots 12 of the frame members. oscillatable nippers, thenipper guide with re- During the closing movement of the nipper the 5silient rollers which are arranged on a lever lower jaw c bearspractically on its entire width mechanism and are destined to supportthe lower against a stay 0 inserted in the frame members jaw of thenipper on its entire width as soon as so that the pressure of the nipperis also unithe nipper is moved towards the combing cylformly distributedover the entire width of the inder. A resilient supporting of this typeallows lower jaw. The stay 0 is preferably shaped to 10 still a certainyielding of the nipper under the conform with the deflection of thejaws, which pressure exerted upon the same, so that the postakes placeowing to the closing pressure acting sibility exists that the nippercomes into contact on both jaws, in that for instance the upper surwiththe teeth of the combing cylinder. face 10 of the stay is curved asshown in Fig. 2.

5 The invention has for its object to make it pos- An elasticarrangement, as shown in Fig. 3, 15 sible that the nipper moves towardthe circular may be provided instead of the rigid supporting. comb asnear as possible without any danger of Here a number of spring buffers qare mounted the nipper touching the circular comb. With this side byside in the stay 0, which spring buffers are object in View the lowerjaw of the nipper is depressed during the closing of the nipper andrigidly supported during the closing of the nipper bear with their headsagainst the stay 0, as soon 20 on its entire width by means of a stay,roll or the as the minimum distance between the nipper and like, rigidlyconnected to the frames of the combthe circular comb is reached.

ing machine. In this manner, the heads rigidly support the Yielding ofthe lower jaw under the strong lower jaw c in the lower final positionof the pressure during the closing of the nipper is therebuffers. 25fore absolutely excluded. If desired, the spring buffers may be equippedAn embodiment of the invention is illustrated, with means for adjustingthe elevation of their by Way of example, in the accompanying drawingheads beyond the stay 0.

in which I claim j Fig. 1 shows in side elevation the arrangement 1. Ina combing machine, a pair of frame 30 for opening and closing thenipper. members, a nipper including an upper and a lower Fig. 2 shows infront elevation a stay for supjaw supported by the frame members, and arigid porting the lower jaw and transverse stay rigidly connecting theframe mem- Fig. 3 shows another form of construction of bers andarranged to support the lower jaw of the means for supporting the lowerjaw. the nipper throughout the width of the jaw. 35

The upper jaw 11 of each nipper is movable in 2. In a combing machine, apair of frame memthe usual manner about a stay 1) connecting the bers, anipper including an upper and a lower frame members only one of which isvisible in jaw supported by the frame members, a rigid Fig. l. The upperjaws a are actuated by cams J transverse stay rigidly connected to theframe keyed one on each end of shaft d of the combing members,springs'bufiers projecting from the up- 40 cylinder e by means of links9 and h, which are per surface of the stay for engaging the lowerinterconnected. The links h are hingedly conjaw as it descends duringthe closing movement nected at their upper end at i with the front endof the nipper, and means on the spring buffers of each upper jaw a andas near as possible to for effecting a positive connection between thethe gripping line 1' of the corresponding nipper. buffers and the stayin the lower final position 45 Each of the links g bears through theinterof the buffers. mediary of a roll it against one of the cams f.KARL JOSEF SCHMITT.

